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In a slightly chilly radio studio, songwriter Luke McMaster is laying some drum beats on a keyboard when his co-writer, Lights, bursts into the room and beelines to a piece of paper that has as many scribbled-out words as legible lyrics. She jots down a few words below the chorus before glowing with a wide smile, one almost too big for her petite frame.
"Bathroom trips are the best because you sit down and ... ," she pauses to uncross her arms and point to her head, "you get so many good ideas."
Lights, real name Valerie Poxleitner, sings the new lyrics to McMaster, who nods in approval.
The song is starting to take shape and fit the scene in which TV character Jude Harrison comes up with a song at her piano.
The pair, along with eight other songwriters, are spending a week holed up at Centennial College's campus at Mortimer and Carlaw Aves. writing original songs for the fourth season of CTV's Instant Star.
Throughout the week, the writers mix and match with one another to get different vibes. The show holds three songwriting camps per season to develop new songs.
Next door, Greg Johnston, Chris Burke-Gaffney and Damhnait Doyle momentarily struggle to rhyme a chorus line in a song about life as a celebrity.
Rob Wells and Christopher Ward, the week's co-ordinator, work on a grand piano in the main hallway of the college. Ward arrives with lyrics, which he hands over to Wells, who – given about 10 to 20 minutes – can hear the melodic line.
Wells plays a melody that sounds like a church hymn and Ward taps his feet, following on his guitar after jotting down the chords. Ward sings along, but a line in the chorus has too many syllables. They find the right word, hit record on their cassette player before heading back to the studio to lay out the tracks.
It's the beginning of the songwriting week and around a large boardroom table sit the musicians and the show's writers and producers at Epitome Pictures.
Executive producer Stephen Stohn tells everyone how well Instant Star is being received in 120 countries, but vents a little about the lack of a consistent schedule on CTV. One episode airs tonight at 8:30 after Canadian Idol; the final two of Season 3 will broadcast this Sunday at 7 and 7:30 p.m.
He says the first few episodes of the fourth season are going well and there's more maturing for Harrison, the young starlet played by Alexz Johnson, and the music is adding much texture to the show.
Head writer Tracey Forbes gives an outline of the story arcs that conclude the season. As she talks about ideas – empowerment, independence and the difficulties of relationships – and the tempo that she envisions for these songs, the musicians write down notes.
The songwriters say this show is sometimes easier to write for than themselves or other artists because Jude is a very universal character.
"It's not Ugly Betty, it's not an idiosyncratic character," says Johnston.
Writing music for TV is no longer stigmatized, say these songwriters, who have worked with some multi-platinum artists including Backstreet Boys, Hilary Duff and Nick Lachey.
"Shows like The O.C. and Grey's Anatomy are now making artists," says Johnston. "The music supervisors on those shows are so powerful now, and they can make or break you."
Doyle says TV is now the biggest avenue to get music out to the masses as it becomes more important than radio and CD sales. Think about all the catchy tunes you've heard through commercials then downloaded almost immediately.
The smell of barbecued shrimp lingers at Stohn's beachfront home as the songwriters and show writers mingle. After dinner, everyone sits around the family room while Stohn plays the week's CDs.
One by one, the songs bounce off the walls (and an Emmy for Degrassi) and the songwriters bob to the music. Standing in the doorway, Stohn taps his thigh to the beat, even strumming an air guitar on occasion.
"How is it possible that on Monday morning, we had only themes?" he says with a beaming smile.
The song from Johnston, Burke-Gaffney and Doyle is next up. "I can already see Jude singing during some of the montages," Forbes says after a dozen songs are played.
Later in the evening, a small group that includes McMaster and Lights gathers in a theatre room upstairs housing a TV the size of a twin bed. Stohn shows them a rough cut of an early episode in Season 4 in which one of their songs from an earlier camp – a Sgt. Pepper-inspired tune – is used for a number at the end of the show.
"Thanks for doing something so amazing with our song," McMaster says to Stohn. "It's just so satisfying."
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